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parts having a tendency to assume a dirty cream colour, especially 

 in dead specimens. Spire convex below, slightly acuminate 

 above, apex obtuse, rather inclined to the right, suture impressed. 

 Whorls 7|-8, convex, the last J- of the entire length, rounded at 

 the base. Aperture nearly vertical, sub-pyriforrn, milky within ; 

 peristome thickened, white, outer margin rather straight, not 

 arcuate, columella deeply curved, lined with callus, sub-obliquely 

 and rather broadly truncated at the base. 



"Length 30, diarn. 11| millim. Aperture 10 millim. long, 

 6 broad." (Blanford.) 



Hob. India : Anamullay Hills, 5000 to 7000 feet (Beddome}. 



" This is a more solid form than any of the Nilgiri species, and 

 it differs from all of them, and also from the solid Ceylonese 

 forms, in its sub-acuminate apex. It is a well-marked species." 

 (Stanford.) 



Beddome records the species from Ceylon, stating that specimens 

 from that island are slightly narrower but do not otherwise differ. 

 I have not seen any Cinghalese specimens which can be referred 

 to G. beddomei, the only specimen so labelled in the Beddome 

 collection being a variety of G. reynelli (q. v.). 



373. Glessula pallens, Beddome. 



Glessula beddomei, var. pallens, Beddome, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, 

 vii, 1906, p. 165 ; Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, xx, 1909, p. 74. 



Shell ovate-conoid, somewhat thin, finely and closely striated, 

 pale straw-coloured with irregular fuscous transverse streaks, 

 variously spaced. Spire convex conoid, suture deep, apex acute. 



Fig. 125. Glessula pattens, f. 



Whorls 8J, convex, the last equalling | the entire length of the 

 shell, convex at the base. Aperture a little oblique, obovate- 

 pyriforin, pearly within, the margins united by a thin callus ; 

 peristome scarcely thickened, outer margin regularly curved, 



